Under Standing Order 4.4, where any councillor has a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest (as defined in the
Members’ Code of Conduct (para.
4)) in any matter to be considered at a meeting of the Council, a
committee, sub-committee or joint committee, they must withdraw
from the meeting room during the whole of the consideration of that
matter and must not participate in any vote on that matter unless a
dispensation has been obtained from the Monitoring
Officer.

The Deputy Cabinet Member
for Schools,Councillor Pickard responded.
Council noted that:

·She thanked the speaker for a fantastic and moving
speech that illustrated the fantastic work these nursery schools
did for Lambeth children.

·The funding was inadequate, and the schools depended
on the temporary funding which ceases
next summer.

·She was campaigning along with NEU and parents for
long term sustainable funding.

·An invitation was sent to Gavin Williamson, the
Secretary of State for Education, to
visit the schools of Lambeth.

2.A deputation was made to Council about changing the
supplementary Planning Guidance. Council noted that:

·The speaker raised the issue of his personal
circumstances relating to a planning issue.

·The resident requested that the Council provided
consistency and clarity from the Planning Authority and allow
L-dormers to be legal.

·That the actions of the Planning Authority on how
they deal with enforcement be reviewed as he had a negative
experience with his recent application.

The Cabinet Member for
Planning, Investment & New Homes,Councillor Bennett responded. Council
noted that:

·He thanked the resident for his deputation to Full
Council and Councillor Dickson had also brought this to the
attention of Council on various occasions.

·In August, a different planning inspector had
confirmed L shaped dormers were legal, and that the inconsistencies
of planning inspectors across the country were due to poorly worded
secondary legislation which regulated permitted
development.

·Those who had submitted an application that was
rejected had been written to, informing of them of this
change.

The Leader of the
Council, Councillor Jack Hopkins, addressed Council. Council noted
the following points:

That he attended
Lambeth Borough Conference, met with residents, businesses,
voluntary sector and community groups, discussing how far Lambeth
had come in the last year, and how far Lambeth would go in the next
year.

His work with
Extinction Rebellion on tackling the Climate Emergency.

He mentioned the
launch of the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy, which was
out for consultation.

That Brexit remains a
pressing concern for EU citizens in Lambeth. On Saturday he met
with EU citizens and groups who were working with different
communities to ensure EU citizens were able to access the Right to
Remain settlement status.

Councillor Seedat was
working tirelessly against Hate Crime. Last week able to deliver
funding for Divert Youth.

Deputy Leader of the
Opposition, Councillor Becca Thackray, addressed Council. Council
noted the following points:

A film called Pride,
based on the experience of Jonathan Blake from Lambeth, who forged
a protest in the mid-1980s, where Lesbians and Gays supported the
miners. The legacy of that unlikely alliance held well beyond the
fractured era.

The Green Party were
proud to support Extinction Rebellion and thanked the Council for
enabling exile rebels to camp at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, pushing
the government to address the Climate Emergency.

She advised that
Councillor Bartley had been arrested whilst defending our democracy
and joining climate activists in White Hall speaking out against
the banning of peaceful protest across London.

She concluded with
the illustration of standing stronger united, in defending human
rights during Black History month, with the image of Tommy Smith
and John Carlos protesting for civil rights at the 1968
Olympics.

Councillor Davie responded that Lambeth had carefully
benchmarked against neighbours and found that the Council was
relatively generous. Consultation had finished and the Council had
carefully considered responses.

2.CouncillorTim Briggs to the Deputy Leader of the Council (Children and
Young People), Councillor Jennifer
Brathwaite:

Supplementary questionCouncillor Briggs asked
if there had been any modelling on the
effect on school places from migration
from private schools.

Supplementary answerCouncillor Pickard
responded on behalf of Councillor Brathwaite. If a large number of
children would leave private schools, a commission would be
set up to look into how the state would gradually take over
existing private school buildings and turn them into new state
schools, and there would be the same amount of spaces as
before.

3.CouncillorJon Davies to Deputy Leader of the Council
(Environment and Clean Air) Councillor Claire
Holland:

Supplementary questionCouncillor Davies asked
that Councillor Holland discuss with her counterparts in the other
three boroughs to progress implementing the London living
wage.

Supplementary answerCouncillor Holland
agreed that the Council should continue to advocate to Western
Riverside Waste Authority to pay the living wage to the
contractors. She also affirmed that she would escalate this further
to the Leader of the Council to write to his counterparts on this
topic

4.CouncillorJackie Meldrum to Leader of the Council,
Councillor Jack Hopkins:

Supplementary answerCouncillor Hopkins
confirmed that the Council would fight to support our residents to
get settlement status. The Council would request the resources
needed to reach out, and ensure that the Hostile Environment Policy
is reviewed.

5.CouncillorMohammed Hashi to Cabinet Member for Jobs, Skills
and Community Safety, Councillor Mohammed
Seedat:

Supplementary questionCouncillor Hashi asked
Councillor Seedat what support was available to the families of the
victims and communities of Serious Youth Violence and how did the
Council measure progress and impact on reducing serious youth
violence crime.
Supplementary answerCouncillor Seedat
stated that the Council developed its approach in providing support
and guidance to those that were affected by serious
violence. A number of programmes were
put in place, but more work was required.

6.CouncillorJoanna Reynolds to Cabinet Member for Finance and
Performance, Andy Wilson:

Supplementary questionCouncillor Reynolds
wanted clarification from the statement that ‘the electricity
that will be sourced by a 100% renewable energy guarantee
option’, if this meant all the properties owned by Lambeth
would be covered by that, or whether they were homes or only the
buildings that Council workers occupy.
Supplementary answerCouncillor Wilson
informed Council that from April 2020 every Council office
building, community centre, parks ...
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RESOLVED: To suspend committee rules and procedures to
allow three motions to be debated instead of two.

Motion 1: Green

The Labour amendment to the motion was CARRIED and Council RESOLVED:

Homelessness Charter

This Motion
is designed to complement the draft Homelessness and Rough Sleeping
Strategy and Action Plan put forward for consultation in September
2019.

Council
commits to adopting the following Homelessness Charter, and notes
that when it refers to those who are ‘homeless’ it
includes those who are without shelter of any kind - ‘rough,
or street sleepers’ as well as individuals and families who
have a roof over their head but live in overcrowded conditions and
those with no security of tenure; such as those sofa-surfing and
those in temporary accommodation.

Council
notes that the draft Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy and
Action Plan sets out many of the principles contained within the
Homelessness Charter and welcomes the strategy’s focus on
providing vulnerable residents who find themselves homeless with
the support they need and deserve.

Lambeth
Council believes that everyone has the right to a warm and secure
home that they can afford to live in.

The Council
will respect and uphold the rights of anyone who is experiencing
homelessness of any kind.

The
Councildoes not and will not contribute in any way to the harsh and inhumane
conditions too often experienced by people who do not have a place
to call home and commits to improving the living conditions of
people who are homeless and to lessen the impact of the negative
effects of homelessness.

The
Councildoes not and will not facilitate the government’s hostile environment
policies in any way. Council condemns the government’s
hostile environment policies and their appalling record of rising
homelessness, which is arguably the most acute impact of almost a
decade of austerity.

To help
achieve this Council believes that it is essential to re-state that
every person who is experiencing homelessness is entitled to the
same treatment as any other resident in the borough. No one should
be denied rights because they are experiencing
homelessness.

To this end
Lambeth Council will make effective the following rightswhere it is within its legal powers to do
so:

1.
Homelessness prevention

Each person
has the right to access the help and support they need, including
financial planning, to avoid homelessness. All individuals have the
right to access any support services, including specialist support
for those with protected characteristics, that may help them stay
in their home be it for mental or physical health, financial or
addiction issues.

2. The
Right to Housing

If a person
does find themselves without a home, their most important right is
to exit homelessness. Services supporting access to appropriate
housing must be accessible to all homeless people.

3. The
Right to Shelter

Where
housing cannot be immediately provided, there must be access to
decent emergency accommodation for anyone finding themselves
without shelter. The Council is committed to ensuring that there is
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a)Delegation of powers to London Councils
for the creation of pan-London Byelaw

Councillor Briggs commented on the report to Council. Council
noted the following key points:

·He was concerned that it could block private bike
providers, and that it would not change the function that they
currently had.

·He agreed that bike hire should be easier to
control.

RESOLVED:

1.Agreed to the making of a pan-London Byelaw that
would regulate dockless cycle hire
schemes by, amongst other things, compelling dockless operators to use designated parking spaces
and to prohibit cycles being left anywhere other than as stipulated
by boroughs.

2.Agreed to delegate the Council’s byelaw making
powers to London Council’s Transport andEnvironment Committee and authorised an appropriate officer or
member to sign the declaration in Appendix 2 on its
behalf.

RESOLVED: That the
current absence from all Council and Committee meetings of
Councillor Christopher Wellbelove and
Councillor Annie Gallop due to ill health was authorised and
approved for the period until the scheduled meeting of the Council
to be held in February 2020, pursuant to Section 85 of the 1972
Local Government Act.